Brazile as DNC chair considered replacing Clinton with Biden after she fainted: report

Former DNC leader Donna Brazile says she considered replacing 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton with then-Vice President Joe Biden after Clinton fainted in the closing weeks of the White House race, according to full review of Brazile’s upcoming book published Saturday.

Clinton fainted while attending an outdoor ceremony in New York City marking the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. But Brazile, then the interim Democratic National Committee chairwoman, had already known that Clinton has pneumonia, she writes in her upcoming book, according to The Washington Post, which received an advance copy.

The Post’s review of the book — “Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns that Put Donald Trump in the White House” — says Brazile writes in “wrenching detail” about the former first lady’s bout with pneumonia, including her seeing Clinton at a Manhattan gala two days before she collapsed.

Brazile said Clinton was already “wobbly on her feet” and had a “rattled cough,” according to the review.

Clinton’s former campaign team said in an open letter posted Saturday on the blogging platform Medium that they were dismayed by Brazile’s revelations.